Activities

Don provides the following services: Speaking | Consulting | Lobbying

Public and written advocacy for environmentally responsible use of natural resources:

Don’s nonfiction books and research and advocacy papers promote an environmentally sustainable world in which we humans carefully manage and protect our planet’s natural capital while still making sustainable use of what it has to offer. These include:

  1. Barnyards and Birkenstocks: Why Farmers and Environmentalists Need Each Other – published by Washington State University Press – 2014
  2. No Farms, No Food: Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture — to be published by Island Press in April, 2022
  3. Research and advocacy papers published in the Research and Writings/Agriculture, Natural Resources & the Environment section of this website

Fiction entertainment, including:

Don is also a writer of fiction, including a mystery series set at the Washington State Legislature featuring protagonist, Sandy Dalton, a contract lobbyist who represents conservation minded farmers, land trusts, and the commercial salmon fishing industry below. He also has a new mystery, Secret Places: A Southeast Alaska Mystery, which is set in a small village in Southeast Alaska and in the commercial salmon troll fishery conducted there due out in Early 2025. He and his wife, Charlotte Stuart, co-authored Midnight for Justice: The Warren & Carmichael Legal Thrillers — a military-legal thriller set in the courtrooms and environs of the U.S. Navy in the post-Vietnam era and in the current day and due out from Quartermaster Press late in 2024..

  1. Final Adjournment – (Epicenter Press, 2017)
  2. Suspension of the Rules – (Northwest Corner Books, an imprint of Epicenter Press, 2021)
  3. Censure and Repeal – (Northwest Corner Books, an imprint of Epicenter Press, 2024)
  4. Secret Places: A Southeast Alaska Mystery – (Epicenter Press, due out in early 2025)
  5. Midnight for Justice: The Warren & Carmichael Legal Thrillers – coauthored by Don Stuart and Charlotte Stuart – (Quartermaster Press – due out late 2024)
  6. Darwin’s Dilemma: A Story of Humans, AIs and the Future of Intelligence (Quartermaster Press, 2023

VARIOUS YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON MATTERS OF INTEREST:

Don’s experiences in fishing, agriculture, and the maritime trades are reflected on some miscellaneous publications of a more general nature. He has also produced several YouTube videos on various topics, including:

— The Do-It-Yourself Lobbyist: How to Influence Your Legislature Without Hiring an Expensive Professional Lobbyist.

— The Fallacy of Individualism

— How Humans Know Right from Wrong – Thank Darwin

— How Humans Know Who to Trust – Thank Darwin

— Building the Commercial Fishing Vessel “Nightwings“

— Building an Electric Power Cruiser by converting an old sailboat hull to electric power.